Mr. Goschen spoke again at Blackpool on Thursday, when he
remarked of Mr. Morley's excuse for his reluctance to let the public gain any glimpse of the counsels of the Home-rulers, that there was very little analogy between that reluctance and the reticence of the framers of the American Constitution, who would not disclose their design till it was completed. The Home-rulers had disclosed their design in 1886, and that design had been condemned by the people. Now they demanded the utmost secrecy for their counsels in revising and recon- structing that design. Yet the public cannot but be anxious to know in what direction a design is to .be recast which Mr. Gladstone himself had said it would "pass the wit of man" to reconcile with the retention of Irish Members for Imperial affairs, and their exclusion for purely British affairs,—the very object of the new deliberations. Mr. Gladstone had himself proclaimed the inherent and all but insuperable difficulty of the problem, and yet now his friends are impatient because the public wants to know how he proposes to surmount it.
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